Re: Ben Franklin, America's First Physicist
From: Brian Quincy Hutchings (QncyMI_at_netscape.net)
Date: 09/29/04
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Date: 29 Sep 2004 11:45:47 -0700
great introduction. alas,
the rest is either too contrroversial, or
completely academic.
what would Ben have made of "virtual photons?"
Jack Sarfatti <sarfatti@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:<chF5d.20222$QJ3.15625@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>...
> A Letter from Benjamin Franklin to William Brownrigg, 1773
> "Dear Sir: I thank you for the remarks of your learned friend at
> Carlisle. I had, when a youth, read and smiled at Pliny's account of a
> practice among the seamen of his time, to still the waves in a storm by
> pouring oil into the sea; which he mentions as well as the use made of
> oil by the divers; but the stilling a tempest by throwing vinegar into
> the air had escaped me. I think with your friend that it has been of
> late too much the mode to slight the learning of the ancients. The
> learned, too, are apt to slight too much the knowledge of the vulgar.
> The cooling by evaporation was long an instance of the latter. The art
> of smoothing the waves by oil is an instance of both.
> Perhaps you may not dislike to have an account of all I have heard, and
> learnt, and done in this way. Take it if you please as follows:"
> http://jcbmac.chem.brown.edu/baird/Chem22I/Avogadro/BenFranklin.html
--A HYDROGEN (sic; cracked methane) ECONOMY?...
The Three Phases of Exploitation of the Protocols
of the Elders of Kyoto:
(FOSSILISATION [McCainanites?] (TM/sic))/
BORE/GUSH/NADIR "@" http://www.tarpley.net/aobook.htm.
http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm (partial contents, below):
17 -- THE ATTEMPTED COUP D'ETAT, 3/30/81 (87K)
18 -- IRAN-CONTRA (140K)
19 -- THE LEVERAGED BUYOUT MOB (67K)
20 -- THE PHONY WAR ON DRUGS (26K)
21 -- OMAHA (25K)
22 -- GEORGE "#9" TAKES THE PRESIDENCY (112K)
23 -- THE END OF HISTORY (168K)
24 -- THE NEW WORLD ORDER (255K)
25 -- THYROID STORM (139K)
http://quincy4board.homestead.com/files/curriculum/Cosmo.PCX
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